Sentences with phrase «big drug company»

It is also restricted almost entirely to Africa, which, unfortunately for its victims, makes it a less attractive target for big drug companies than a host of non-fatal diseases (think erectile dysfunction) that are more common in rich countries.

STAT reached out to the 15 biggest drug companies about the immigration ban; only Johnson & Johnson, Merck, and Novartis responded with statements — and they simply expressed support for affected employees, without taking a stance on Trump's action.

Eagle's Sassouni pointed out that since the big drug companies are losing billions of dollars every year to generic versions and have little to spend on their own research and development, they are looking to buy smaller biotechnology companies that are developing their own products.

As for stem cell research, I don't think you understand the reach of these big drug companies.

But as its patent expires on November 30 and its first generic competitor takes the stage, Lipitor is also a painful reminder of the challenge that such «patent cliffs» pose for the big drug companies, including Lipitor's developer Pfizer, based in New York.

He then argues that homeopathy satisfies a real demand in healthcare, to the inconvenience of big drug companies, ignoring the fact that selling water and sugar to people is of great convenience to the big homeopathy companies.

Creating new drugs is notoriously expensive and time - consuming and, with tropical diseases, the financial incentive isn't there for big drug companies who...

So I'm a) from the medic profession (Micheal don't kill me I'm an expert of the body and dislike big drug companies and b) I'm an ibs sufferer.

Nina and I are friends as well, even though I say her name wrong, who has also written some books about fat, but there's this national conversation where you have the old school low - fats, mostly paid for by big grain sort of research out there, and you're refuting some of that using very strong academics, randomized controlled trials, and the things that everyone wants, but no one has paid for except for maybe big drug companies and things like that.

Because we at Barton Publishing are blowing the whistle on the big drug companies by revealing simple home remedies that cure acid reflux without expensive prescription or over the counter drugs.

Approximately three - quarters of all respondents (76 %) and Trump voters (74 %) believe that high drug costs are the result of big drug companies and the deals their lobbyists make.

When big drug companies put profits above the safety and wellbeing of the general public, we believe they should be held accountable for their actions.

The high profile mandate — which will create the world's biggest drug company by sales — sees Wachtell advising Pfizer on the deal alongside Skadden and Ireland's A&L Goodbody.

Not exact matches

«Far and away the biggest value - creating step that a company can have is evolving from concept to drug,» says Brian Bapty, a biotechnology analyst with Vancouver - based brokerage Raymond James Financial Inc. «It's one of the best businesses to be in, albeit one of the higher - risk businesses.»

Canada's largest publicly traded drug company is about to get a whole lot bigger, thanks to zit cream and aging faces.

LONDON / NEW YORK / TOKYO, April 25 - Rare disease specialist Shire said on Wednesday it was willing to recommend a sweetened $ 64 billion offer from Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Co to shareholders, in what would be the biggest acquisition of a drug company since 2000..

LONDON, Feb 6 - After nearly a century building a company worth $ 125 billion based on injectable drugs, Denmark's Novo Nordisk - the world's biggest insulin maker - wants to prove this year it can transform the diabetes market with a pill.

And despite the fact that Mylan raised EpiPen prices roughly 30 % in 2015 while prescription volume also grew 7 %, the company's revenue on the drug actually fell slightly, as the other players took even bigger cuts, according to Raffat.

Add one more name to the new slew of pharma companies trying to counteract the public backlash to big drug price increases: France's Sanofi, a $ 126 billion firm known for its flagship diabetes and vaccines units.

But in the past year the drug company's shares have been one of Wall Street's biggest disasters.

They've gone from a big, diversified drug company to a highly focused biopharma firm.»

In fact, if you believe Ackman's math, Valeant goes from one of the industry's stingiest companies when it comes to R&D, as critics contend, to one of the biggest spenders on drug research.

This is quite a big deal as Valeant bought Sprout Pharmaceuticals, the company behind the drug for a whopping $ 1 billion just over two years ago.

While Tesaro is remaining publicly coy for now, a buyout has always been in the cards as big pharma companies continue to snap up biotechs that have already done drug development legwork for them.

Another value play for 2017 could be Novartis, a Swiss diversified drug company and the world's biggest prescription drugmaker.

LONDON / NEW YORK / TOKYO Rare disease specialist Shire said on Wednesday it was willing to recommend a sweetened $ 64 billion offer from Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Co to shareholders, in what would be the biggest acquisition of a drug company since 2000.

LONDON Europe's biggest biotechnology company, Denmark's Genmab, expects some delays to regional drug approvals as the European Medicines Agency is uprooted from London to Amsterdam.

COPENHAGEN, April 10 Genmab plans to own a bigger share of drugs in its early - stage pipeline as Europe's biggest biotechnology company prepares to reduce its reliance on a blockbuster cancer drug, marketed by partner Johnson & Johnson.

Such big winners stopped showing up a few years ago, leaving the large drug companies watching the calendar for the day when earnings would be hurt by the loss of key patent protections.

A federal crackdown on illicit foreign supplies of human growth hormone has failed to stop rampant misuse, and instead has driven record sales of the drug by some of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies, an Associated Press investigation shows...

In May generic drug company Actavis Inc. agreed to buy Warner Chilcott PLC for $ 8.5 billion in stock, creating the third - biggest specialty pharmaceutical company in the U.S. market.

As big pharmaceutical companies find that the patents for some of their blockbuster drugs are expiring, they are desperately reaching out to replenish their drug pipelines.

LONDON (Reuters)- Europe's biggest biotechnology company, Denmark's Genmab, expects some delays to regional drug approvals as the European Medicines Agency is uprooted from London to Amsterdam.

It was a far bigger credit than most companies start off with, and Chainalysis smartly ran with it, signing up customers like the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and Europol to help them catch criminals.

Large companies (Big Pharma) spend considerable amounts on advertising and distribution, and often have large sales forces that promote their drugs to physicians to convince them to prescribe the drug.

They often license promising drugs to bigger pharmaceutical companies, which help pay for development and become responsible for making sales.

Now Amazon's moves to enter the health care industry have led two major US companies to make one of the biggest deals of the year, signaling major changes to come in the way Americans buy drugs and otherwise manage their health.

LONDON / NEW YORK / TOKYO (Reuters)- Rare disease specialist Shire said on Wednesday it was willing to recommend a sweetened $ 64 billion offer from Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Co to shareholders, in what would be the biggest acquisition of a drug company since 2000.

Athenex Inc. said Monday it expects its new factory in Dunkirk to be completed by the end of March 2019, but the drug development company's shares tumbled by 5 percent after its fourth - quarter loss was far bigger than analysts expected.

A 2017 investigation into lobbying efforts by «Big Pharma» conducted by The Washington Post and 60 Minutes found that the companies spent more than $ 106 million to lobby Congress in an effort to pass more favorable drug laws.

Kay Abadee, VP of marketing at Axiom, noted that bigger companies were looking particularly for pea proteins with Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) certification from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Clearly, waiting three years to tell her audience, she was obviously shopping around the drug companies to find the biggest deal she could wrangle as a paid spokesperson.

«For example; McCain and Palin claimed the donars are largely unknown for Obama, while they have taken campaign money for years from big donors such as Freddie and Fannie, AIG, Oil companies, Drug companies etc.,»

Geron was bigger and better funded than ACT, and it was the first company to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to test a therapy in humans based on embryonic stem (ES) cells.

David Kessler, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, is calling for a big government - funded research project to help fill in the gaps in genetic pathways in people, which are turning out to be far more complex than expected for illnesses such as heart disease and which may be beyond the ability of private companies and smaller labs to figure out and pay for.

In 2009, BMS took a big risk jumping into the immunotherapy field by acquiring the company Medarex, which brought with it Yervoy, a member of a new class of cancer drugs.

«These companies might have the next big drug, but they might not know it.»

The Canadian drug discovery industry is still small, especially in comparison to the United States, owing to the lack of big pharmaceutical companies conducting research and development in this country.

As well, pharmaceutical companies are looking for new ways to address their two - pronged pipeline problem: many big - name blockbuster drugs will soon lose their patents and, perhaps more important, there is a dearth of new blockbusters headed to the market.

The most important change occurring in the industry is a shift away from the traditional «big pharma» model for drug development, in which research and development are concentrated inside such companies as Pfizer, Merck, and AstraZeneca.